No actually it does not. But I also realized that I do not have SMS permission enabled for Android auto. I did at one point, but I also got frustrated at one point and wiped out Auto, Google, whatever other dependent apps to try and start over.
It’s just a tad annoying to try something because I have to go from my computer where I am doing the research, over to my car, turn it on, connect my phone, etc… in order to try anything.
Edit: Interestingly, even though I had Gmail installed, my google account was NOT in the listed accounts on the phone. I’ve since added it, but that didn’t help the situation any. I also don’t seem to have an option to sync contacts in there. I have also tried installing Google’s contact app for good measure and still nothing.
Edit Edit: I have in the past gotten the response “Oops something went wrong” (that the github issue mentions) from the voice assistant, but that has cleared up after adding certain permissions (I don’t remember which ones).
So just to keep documenting what I’ve been doing… I blanket assigned all permissions to Android auto and dependency apps and that still did not resolve the issue, so it is probably safe to say that it is something with the way I’m handling contacts. I just don’t know how to correct it.
I did find one Android setting that I thought would do it called “contact storage”, that was not set, that had options to pick certain accounts or “device only”. I played around with different selections in there and it did not solve the issue.
At this point I’m sort of out of ideas as I don’t think I’m willing to let google be the source of truth for my contacts if it so happens to be one of the apps in the Android auto chain looking for google contacts specifically.
Oh well. As I said in my original post, if that is the one thing I’m doing to have to live without then so be it suppose.
Edit: Thanks for the ideas DahGangalang